SKY CASTLE RECORD BREAKING RATING MIGHT GET BEATEN BY ANOTHER DRAMA

tvN’s “When My Love Blooms”—a new romance drama starring GOT7’s Jinyoung, Jeon So Nee, Yoo Ji Tae, and Lee Bo Young—made a promising start. The drama premiered to an average nationwide rating of 5.4 percent and a peak of 6.5 percent, taking first place in its time slot across all cable channels.

JTBC’s The World Of The Married” Is Less Than 1 Percent Away From Making Cable Ratings History. On April 25, viewership ratings for the hit drama soared to a new all-time high. According to Nielsen Korea, the latest episode of “The World of the Married” scored an average nationwide rating of 22.91 percent, this make the drama’s highest to date, and yet they still have several episodes left.

Notably, the episode fell just shy of the 2019 record set by “SKY Castle” for the highest viewership ratings ever achieved by any drama in Korean cable network history: 23.78 percent. With its latest rating less than one percentage point away from the figure achieved by “SKY Castle,” “The World of the Married” appears likely to catch up to the hit satirical drama in the near future.

Meanwhile, SBS’s “The King: Eternal Monarch” scored average nationwide ratings of 8.0 percent and 9.7 percent for the night, while KBS 2TV’s “Once Again” stayed strong with average ratings of 21.6 percent and 25.5 percent.

In 2020, there are already so many good drama who gets a higher rating compare to later years, like 2019. Previously, “Crash Landing on You,” the k-drama that is currently captivating audience worldwide, is now the 2nd highest-rated cable drama in Korea ever. The highly talked-about finale of the TvN series registered a very high 21.7% in South Korea’s cable ratings. In fact, CLOY is the second drama to surpass the 20% bracket which translates to 6.3 concurrent viewers, placing second to Sky Castle which scored 23.8% during its final episode in February 2019. Not to forget that, we also have another high rating drama: ITAWEON CLASS, where On March 21, the hit drama soared to a new all-time ratings high for its final episode. According to Nielsen Korea, the series finale of “Itaewon Class” scored an average viewership rating of 16.5 percent nationwide and 18.3 percent in the Seoul metropolitan area, marking the drama’s highest ratings to date.

Highest Rated K-Drama of All Time in Cable

(As of March 2020)

SKY Castle (JTBC, 2018-2019) – 23.8%

Crash Landing On You (tvN, 2019-2020) – 21.7%

Reply 1988 (tvN, 2015-2016) – 18.8%

Goblin (tvN, 2016-2017) – 18.7%

Mr. Sunshine (tvN, 2018) – 18.1%

Itaewon class (JTBC, 2020) - 16.5%

100 Days My Prince (tvN, 2018) – 14.4%

Signal (tvN, 2016) – 12.5%

The Lady In Dignity (JTBC, 2017) – 12.1%

Hotel del Luna (tvN, 2019) – 12.0%